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Google Dorking is an advanced search technique that lets a person create a very specific, targeted search for general info, like admin passwords and Excel spreadsheets with business secrets, or specific web vulnerabilities that could be used for illegal purposes. In this Sprint Business blog – 5 Steps to Protect Yourself Against ‘Google …

“Google dorking.” It sounds goofy, but it could be just the ticket for a hacker looking to stir mayhem. The search technique is one of several methods that bad guys can use to find vulnerable computer systems and trace them to a specific place on the Internet. All they have to do is type in …

Bishop Fox’s Google Hacking Diggity Project is featured in the OWASP Testing Guide 4.0. OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) is a major web application security organization and their testing guide is one of the most trusted sources in the industry. The guide encompasses a penetration testing best practice framework and techniques for …

While it seems years too late, DHS, FBI and NCTC issued a bulletin warning website admins about malicious cyber actors using Google Dorking advanced search techniques to find vulnerabilities that can be exploited in cyber attacks. Fran Brown’s tool SearchDiggity is referenced in the bulletin and in this Computerworld article: Feds Issue Bulletin Warning …

A list of effective search facilities when doing OSINT and recon work for pen testing has been released, and Bishop Fox’s SearchDiggity is mentioned as a useful tool in this ShackF00 post: Search Engines for OSINT and Recon